I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 389: The battle for governors, recruiting talents of all kinds!

Daming, the capital.

Royal Palace.

Zhu Yunzhen lay on his side and flipped through the book. Although he came from later generations and had a lot of knowledge and foresight beyond ordinary people, in the final analysis, he still needed to improve himself.

No one can live a lifetime relying on previous knowledge.

In this court full of cunning old foxes, there are smart people everywhere. In the past, Zhu Yunzhen might have been able to crush them with his hundreds of years of knowledge, but these old foxes would continue to draw nutrients from him!

Thereby enriching oneself and gradually becoming able to keep up with Zhu Yunxuan’s ideas!

At that time, if Zhu Yunzhen continues to stand still, he will only be fooled by these old foxes and lose his first-mover advantage!

As small as himself, it is the same, as large as the entire Ming Dynasty!
Although the Ming Dynasty now has many advantages and is far ahead of the surrounding countries and even the countries of the world, it is still a land-power country after all, and its pursuit is hegemony on land, not hegemony on the sea.

This will be extremely disadvantageous in the future age of navigation!
Therefore, Zhu Yunzhen must set an example and ingrain this blood of continuous progress in the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, especially to avoid the emergence of unscrupulous descendants like carpenter emperors who do not do their jobs properly in the future!

And if there were an emperor like Emperor Jiajing who devoted himself to cultivating immortality and did not go to court for decades, Zhu Yunxu would be so angry that he would die!
Although Emperor Jiajing was not a faint king, let alone a mediocre person, it was precisely because of this that he became even more infuriating, because a talented but uneducated monarch could influence all his ministers. This subtle influence can be said to have had an impact on the Ming Dynasty. Destructive!

The foundation is rotten, and no matter how hard future emperors try to govern, it will be empty talk!
From a political point of view, Emperor Jiajing was indeed successful. No one escaped his control throughout his life. The so-called Yan Ge Lao Yan Party was just a tool for him to make money.

Judging from the life the emperor enjoyed, Emperor Jiajing was even more successful.

But from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, and from the perspective of the world, Emperor Jiajing may be the culprit who really turned the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline, leading to a path of no return!
Since Zhu Yunxuan came from later generations.

I know about the corruption of the Manchu Qing Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the tragic modern history of later generations.

No matter how stupid a person is, he will inevitably have an extra responsibility. Zhu Yunzhen should at least not let the Ming Dynasty die in his own hands, and he must prevent the Ming Dynasty from dying in his own descendants.

So even at this moment, he already has the supreme power of Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Yunxu still maintains a learning attitude. No matter how much he can learn, he must at least show this attitude to other officials. After all, since ancient times, the top beam and the bottom beam have been crooked, and all officials in the court will unconsciously imitate Zhu Yunxu's behavior. Every move.

And local officials followed suit. They did what the senior officials in the DPRK and Central Government did.

To put it bluntly, even a guy like Qin Hui might be able to achieve great achievements if he is under the guidance of a wise king, because such treacherous ministers are often extremely smart people.

Know how to play into their favour.

The people above like to enjoy themselves, so the treacherous ministers will naturally help the emperor enjoy them.

But if the people above work hard to govern, then the traitorous officials may no longer be traitorous officials, but will try their best to become powerful officials.

Do something practical.

Perhaps his nature of being greedy and power-seeking will not change, and he will inevitably be replaced by Bai Ling in the end, but it is difficult to become an adulterer and traitor like Qin Hui.

It's like being under Zhu Yunzhen.

Even if someone wants to become Qin Hui, there is no chance!The Japanese, Annan, and Tatars were all weaker than the Ming Dynasty. Who would be so reluctant to communicate with them?
I don’t have the guts, let alone the price!
"Your Highness, things have been arranged."

far away.

Song Zhong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, walked in slowly and reported: "According to your instructions, spies have been placed in the homes of various ministers."

"During this period, all the ministers communicate with each other, and everything is in the eyes of our Jin Yiwei."

Zhu Yunxuan closed the scroll.

Get up slowly.

He took a sip of hot tea in a leisurely manner and then said, "Well done."

"Then the governor's matter can be put on the agenda."

"I think those old foxes in the court can't wait any longer, right? Gu Da wants to see how many people in the court have the guts to control the government under Solitary Eye's skin!"

"I don't know if Fu Youde's head can suppress the greed in these guys' heads!"

"Have you only had a few good days?"

"So greedy for ink! If the Ming Dynasty develops for a few more years, I'm afraid these guys will be greedy for ink to the tune of tens of millions of taels of silver!"

Zhu Yunzhen's tone was not good.

The greed of these guys is simply increasing exponentially. If Fu Youwen embezzled millions of taels of silver when Lao Zhu was in power, Zhu Yunzhen would not believe it.

Not to mention the previous year's tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty.

It only cost about ten million taels, and they were all physical objects, so there was very little room for manipulation.

Just talk about Lao Zhu’s cruel methods. I’m afraid these guys wouldn’t dare to be so greedy!

He must have seen Zhu Yunxian when he was young.

After the supervision of the country, the Ming Dynasty's economy was booming again, so he took advantage of Zhu Yunzhen's inability to use his energy to deal with the schemes of many feudal kings and the attacks of Fang Xiaoru and others.

So he took the opportunity to embezzle a million taels of money.

I'm afraid there are not just one or two of these people in the court, and Zhu Yunxi doesn't expect to find these guys at once. But if he dares to control the selection of the governor under Zhu Yunxi's nose, then Zhu Yunxi's butcher's knife will definitely not work. You won't be polite!
This time, it can't be solved by just one Fu Youde's head and the heads of two or three other shrimps.

But there must be a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood waiting ahead!
However, Zhu Yunzhen felt that these guys may not be so courageous. The selection of the governor of the Ming Dynasty was of great importance. Who dared to make mistakes in this matter?

You know, although Zhu Yunzhen is young, he is not without power in the court!
On the contrary, even many emperors were not as powerful as Zhu Yunzhen!Among the ministers in the DPRK, there are many Zhu Yunxu's confidants!As for the other vassal kings, those who should have been punished by Zhu Yunxu have already been punished, and those who have not been punished, such as King Yan Zhu Di, are all Zhu Yunxian's die-hard subordinates!

At the same time, on the side of the capital, there are [-] new troops trained by Zhu Yunxu himself!

This is an invincible new army!With all the civil and military power in his hands, as well as privileged institutions such as Jinyiwei, who in the court is Zhu Yunxu's opponent?
Even if someone is Zhu Yunxuan's opponent, isn't there still a real emperor in Yangshan?

This is the founding emperor!One true word is enough to rule the world!

"Your Highness, if you are well prepared this time, you will definitely be able to uncover one or two people with evil intentions."

Song Zhong said from the side: "But because of the Shaanxi incident, I'm afraid those really difficult guys won't show their feet."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to actually see the real big fish."

Song Zhong was very worried about the outcome of this operation, even though the Jinyiwei had been dispatched with all their strength.

But if people don't take the bait.

That didn't help either.

According to what Song Zhong knew, after the news came out that His Highness Taisun announced that he would be selected for the position of governor, many ministers immediately closed their offices to thank guests and stopped seeing people.

Just to avoid suspicion!

It shows how thoughtful these old foxes are!
But Zhu Yunxuan waved his hand nonchalantly. He had no intention of catching a real big fish this time.

As long as these guys can't control the governor's selection.

What Zhu Yunxuan wants to clear up is local government administration and strengthen the efficiency of local government!The first thing to ensure is that there is no interference from the ministers of the DPRK and China!

Otherwise, the governor will send him down when the time comes.

When you get to the local level, do you listen to Zhu Yunxian or do you listen to some ministers?
"Call the Counselor's Office and let them screen suitable candidates for governor, and then hand over the suitable candidates to Gu."

"You take a good look in the dark."

"Did anyone do anything to replace someone who should have been selected?"

"I want to try to see if the ministers in the Advisory Office are reliable." Ming Dynasty's affairs became increasingly busy, and Zhu Yunzhen could not always shoulder the responsibility. Zhu Yunzhen established the Advisory Office not to increase the burden on himself, but to reduce the burden!

As long as the Councilor is available faithfully.

In the future, some things can be handed over to the Advisory Office, regardless of whether it will distract the imperial power.

This is nothing to worry about.

After all, the existence of the Counselor's Office is not much different from that of the cabinet. Later cabinets can never escape the control of the emperor, and the Counselor's Office also does not have this ability.

On the contrary, if you think about centralizing power everywhere.

If you put everything on your own shoulders, you will only exhaust yourself to death, and at the same time, it will only make the governance of Ming Dynasty a mess!

Not willing to trust, not daring to trust, this is what mediocre people do!
As an emperor, he is destined to have all kinds of ministers under his command. If he is always afraid of traitorous ministers and refuses to eat because of choking, then he is an incompetent mediocrity!Rather than a qualified emperor!What Zhu Yunxuan has to do is to be good at utilizing both loyal and treacherous ministers to play their due role!

.........

The next day.

Fengtian Temple.

Morning!

Zhu Yunzhen held the list of candidates recommended by the Counselor's Office in his hand, and his heart was half happy and half worried.

There are many capable ministers in this list.

But there are also some who are good at superficial skills and have no actual achievements. They only have outstanding abilities in making articles. They may be able to talk on paper, but they are probably unable to actually manage the place.

These people may have never been to the grassroots level in their lives.

Even the grains are not distinguished!

How could Zhu Yunxuan believe that these people could manage the place well?

However, there is no doubt about the loyalty of these people to Zhu Yunxuan, because they are all pure scholars, talents accumulated through the imperial examinations in previous years, and have been officials in the court for many years.

I have accumulated enough qualifications.

According to the usual rules, they should be promoted. In the past, they were promoted to the middle of the court. Now that there is such a place as the governor, it is natural to think of them.

But Zhu Yunxuan was unwilling to send them to the local area.

Some people may still be able to play a role in the government, but at the local level, they will only cause chaos to the local officials.

So Zhu Yunxuan put it on hold for the time being.

No comments were made.

In the eyes of the ministers of the DPRK, these actions showed that Zhu Yunxuan was dissatisfied with the list, but it was only a reasonable dissatisfaction and there were no other problems, so he just put it aside, otherwise the blood would have been flowing by now!

Think here.

Many well-connected ministers felt happy in their hearts.

Fortunately, they endured it for a while and didn't even waver in the millions of taels of silver. After all, money is money, but the lives of the family members are also lives!

After all, not everyone has such a good big brother as Ying Guogong!

"Your Highness, I have a script to start with!"

Right now.

A minister of the court stood up, and everyone took a closer look, only to find that it was Zhai Shan, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who had never had a significant presence in the court.

Looks very young.

"Say." Zhu Yunzhen nodded in agreement.

Zhai Shan took a deep breath.

Although he is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, in terms of power in this court, he is probably not comparable to many chief ministers and ministers.

Don't think this is a joke.

In fact, this is indeed the case. There were many things in the Hongwu Dynasty that were unbelievable. For example, Zhai Shan was born in the early years of Hongwu. In his 20s, he actually became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. This can be said for the entire Ming Dynasty. It's quite incredible.

But here with Lao Zhu.

But it is entirely possible, because Lao Zhu is a complete workaholic, and everything must go through his hands.

Morning, afternoon and evening every day, like a tireless working machine.

It is very possible to personally promote a young man to be the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and actually take charge of the affairs of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel himself.

And Zhai Shan is such a very lucky young man.

It's just that the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is not so easy to fill. Within a few years, he was replaced by Lao Zhu. From the dignified Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he was transferred to Xuanhua County Magistrate!

This is simply not too outrageous!

But this is exactly what happened in history...

"Your Highness, as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I cannot absolve myself from the blame for the matter of Fu Youwen. As a superior, I cannot control my subordinates. My virtue is not enough to convince the public, and my abilities are even more limited. I am really not suitable to be in charge of the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs." .”

"Please also ask Your Highness to hand over the position of Minister of Civil Affairs to a capable person!"

Suddenly, the ministers in the DPRK were in an uproar.

Minister of the Ministry of Officials!

This is no small location!Having a high position and high authority is a derogation of this position!
Are you going to replace someone now?
And looking at it like this, His Highness doesn’t seem surprised. Maybe His Highness Taisun’s intention was behind the change!Are you trying to get your henchmen to take over?
Many ministers in the DPRK couldn't stop speculating.

above.

Zhu Yunzhen nodded calmly.

"good."

"In that case, from now on you will be the governor of Shaanxi and govern the territory of Shaanxi for Gu."

"And your original position as Minister of Civil Affairs."

"Then it will be handed over to Yang Shiqi, the director of the People's Supervision Department."

Yang Shiqi!
Is it him again? !

The minister of the DPRK couldn't help but open his mouth!
Although Yang Shiqi is as young as Zhai Shan.

But he is not an official without real power, but a true confidant of His Highness the Grand Sun!He is also a capable minister!
Let such a person sit in the position of Minister of Civil Affairs.

I'm afraid that once I go up, I won't be able to get back down!Not to mention, he also has the title of Counselor!
Regarding this position.

There are not many people in the court who can be bigger than him!
"As for the People's Supervision Department that Yang Shiqi was originally in charge of, it will be handed over to Yang Rong."

Is it Yang again?
All the officials couldn't help but froze in place for a moment.

(End of this chapter)